SQL Contract Job Trends in Bristol

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring SQL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 30 21
Rank change year-on-year +16 -9 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL 61 48 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 8.43% 5.27% 6.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.62% 17.39% 21.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 38 54
10th Percentile £346 £350 £402
25th Percentile £395 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -16.50% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £509 £638 £638
90th Percentile £575 £725 £688
South West median daily rate £438 £538 £513
% change year-on-year -18.60% +4.88% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £76.90
Median hourly rate - - £80.78
75th Percentile - - £84.65
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £36.00 £30.00 £73.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -58.90% +30.15%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 187 276 327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 25.83% 30.33% 30.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 132 229
10th Percentile £335 £351 £325
25th Percentile £400 £422 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -11.55% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £543 £578 £600
90th Percentile £600 £650 £688
South West median daily rate £475 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -11.63% +2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 77 36
10th Percentile - £65.00 £56.70
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £71.88 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £70.30
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Bristol

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Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Bristol over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Bristol

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (9.84%) Oracle Application Server
2 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.56%) SAS
2 4 (6.56%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.56%) Skype for Business
3 1 (1.64%) Apache
3 1 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 20 (32.79%) Azure
2 15 (24.59%) AWS
3 11 (18.03%) Power Platform
4 6 (9.84%) Snowflake
5 5 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (8.20%) Power Automate
6 4 (6.56%) Adobe Analytics
7 3 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.28%) OCI
9 1 (1.64%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.64%) GCP
9 1 (1.64%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.20%) HTTP
2 4 (6.56%) DHCP
2 4 (6.56%) DNS
2 4 (6.56%) Skype
2 4 (6.56%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.03%) Data Warehouse
1 11 (18.03%) Power BI
2 10 (16.39%) Relational Database
3 5 (8.20%) Oracle ODI
3 5 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.20%) Star Schema
4 4 (6.56%) Oracle Database
4 4 (6.56%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (4.92%) ClickHouse
5 3 (4.92%) MySQL
5 3 (4.92%) Power Query
6 2 (3.28%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.64%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.64%) Looker
7 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (8.20%) Git
1 5 (8.20%) JIRA
2 4 (6.56%) DBeaver
2 4 (6.56%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle Forms
General
1 15 (24.59%) Social Skills
2 13 (21.31%) Finance
3 8 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (13.11%) Marketing
3 8 (13.11%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.20%) Banking
5 4 (6.56%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.92%) Electronics
6 3 (4.92%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.28%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.64%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (36.07%) Senior
2 20 (32.79%) Developer
3 13 (21.31%) Analyst
4 12 (19.67%) Applications Support
4 12 (19.67%) Senior Applications Support
5 11 (18.03%) Data Engineer
6 9 (14.75%) Senior Developer
7 8 (13.11%) Applications Support Analyst
7 8 (13.11%) Senior Analyst
7 8 (13.11%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
7 8 (13.11%) Senior Support Analyst
7 8 (13.11%) Support Analyst
8 5 (8.20%) Data Analyst
8 5 (8.20%) Quality Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) Analytics Manager
9 4 (6.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (6.56%) Data Analytics Manager
9 4 (6.56%) Data Manager
9 4 (6.56%) Strategy Manager
9 4 (6.56%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.48%) React
2 5 (8.20%) AngularJS
2 5 (8.20%) JMS
2 5 (8.20%) SOAP
2 5 (8.20%) XML
2 5 (8.20%) XSD
3 4 (6.56%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 3 (4.92%) .NET
4 3 (4.92%) .NET Core
5 2 (3.28%) PySpark
5 2 (3.28%) Spring
6 1 (1.64%) CSS
6 1 (1.64%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.64%) HTML
6 1 (1.64%) Hugging Face
6 1 (1.64%) JWT
6 1 (1.64%) Node.js
6 1 (1.64%) OAuth
6 1 (1.64%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.64%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (19.67%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.56%) PKI
2 4 (6.56%) Replication
3 3 (4.92%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.92%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.28%) IoT
5 1 (1.64%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.56%) Windows
1 4 (6.56%) Windows Server
2 3 (4.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (32.79%) ETL
2 18 (29.51%) Agile
3 14 (22.95%) Business Intelligence
4 13 (21.31%) Analytics
5 12 (19.67%) Data Protection
5 12 (19.67%) Logistics
6 10 (16.39%) Test Automation
7 8 (13.11%) CI/CD
7 8 (13.11%) Critical Thinking
7 8 (13.11%) DevOps
7 8 (13.11%) OO
8 7 (11.48%) Project Delivery
8 7 (11.48%) Scrum
9 6 (9.84%) Data Modelling
9 6 (9.84%) Migration
10 5 (8.20%) Dimensional Modelling
10 5 (8.20%) OOP
10 5 (8.20%) Software Engineering
10 5 (8.20%) Visualisation
11 4 (6.56%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.67%) Python
2 8 (13.11%) PL/SQL
3 7 (11.48%) JavaScript
3 7 (11.48%) PowerShell
4 4 (6.56%) R
4 4 (6.56%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.92%) C#
5 3 (4.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (4.92%) Java
6 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (21.31%) SC Cleared
1 13 (21.31%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.56%) CCNA
2 4 (6.56%) CCNP
2 4 (6.56%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (6.56%) Degree
2 4 (6.56%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (6.56%) Master's Degree
2 4 (6.56%) MCSE
2 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.28%) OCA
3 2 (3.28%) OCP
3 2 (3.28%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (21.31%) GDPR
2 9 (14.75%) Data Quality
3 4 (6.56%) QA
System Software
1 4 (6.56%) Active Directory
1 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 4 (6.56%) Virtual Servers
1 4 (6.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.28%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.56%) SCCM
1 4 (6.56%) Terraform
1 4 (6.56%) WSUS
2 2 (3.28%) Data Guard
2 2 (3.28%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.64%) Ansible
3 1 (1.64%) Grafana
3 1 (1.64%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.64%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (27.87%) Microsoft
2 12 (19.67%) Oracle
3 5 (8.20%) Blue Prism
3 5 (8.20%) Databricks
3 5 (8.20%) ServiceNow
4 4 (6.56%) Adobe
4 4 (6.56%) Cisco
4 4 (6.56%) SolarWinds
4 4 (6.56%) Splunk
4 4 (6.56%) Teradata
4 4 (6.56%) Veeam
4 4 (6.56%) VMware
5 3 (4.92%) SAP
6 1 (1.64%) IFS